Strandwitz, Philip
Philip Strandwitz, PhD
CEO and Co-founder, Holobiome, Inc.
Visiting Scholar, Antimicrobial Discovery Center
Department of Biology, Northeastern University
Boston, MA
The Gut-Brain-Axis – Potential Therapeutic Targets
2019 Faculty Bios/Talk Summaries
Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases: 20th Annual Scientific Update for Clinicians & Researchers
The Lyme Disease Association, Inc. with joint provider Columbia University, is holding its annual scientific CME conference, Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases: 20th Annual Scientific Update for Clinicians & Researchers. Brian Fallon, MD, Columbia University is Conference Director. It will be held at the Hilton Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia, PA on Saturday and Sunday, September 21 & 22. The conference is designed for physicians and researchers but the public is invited to register. AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM will be offered by Columbia University to CME-registered physician attendees. The conference features faculty consisting of clinicians and researchers from across the US. Below are the speakers who have confirmed to date.
Lyon, Joanna
Joanna Lyon, PharmD, MEd, MHS, CHES, BCGP
Advanced Clinical Pharmacist
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
Baltimore, MD
The possible association between the human ABCB1 gene and Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome
Liotta, Lance A.
Lance A. Liotta, MD PhD
University Professor
Co-Director, Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine
Medical Director, Clinical Proteomics Lab
College of Science
George Mason University
Manassas, VA
Shedding of urinary tick pathogen-specific proteins in patients with tick borne diseases
Hodzic, Emir
Emir Hodzic, DVM, MSc, PhD
Director, Real-Time PCR Research & Diagnostics Core Facility
School of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Medicine and Epidemiology
University of California
Davis, CA
Post-treatment persistence of antimicrobial tolerant replicatively-attenuated Borrelia burgdorferi in a mouse model
Armstrong, Paige
Paige Armstrong, MD,
MHS, LCDR
US Public Health Service
Medical Epidemiologist
Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Atlanta, GA
Rickettsial diseases: Epidemiologic trends, clinical diagnosis and management
Baranchuk, Adrian
Adrian Baranchuk, MD
FACC, FRCPC, FCCS
Professor of Medicine
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Systematic approach for the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme carditis
Chaconas, George
George Chaconas, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry and Microbiology & Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
An inside look at the life of a pathogen: Intravital imaging to study hematogenous dissemination of the Lyme disease spirochete
Naviaux, Robert K.
Robert K. Naviaux, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Pathology, and Genetics
University of California
San Diego School of Medicine
San Diego, CA
Metabolomic Features of Acute and Chronic Lyme Disease—Early Results from the
UCSD Lyme-ME/CFS Comparison Study
Storch, Eric
Eric Storch, PhD
Professor and McIngvale
Presidential Endowed Chair
Vice Chair & Head, Psychology
Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Soloski, Mark J.
Mark J. Soloski, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Co-Director for Basic Research, Lyme Disease Research Center
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Host Immune Response in Lyme Borreliosis